“Another zannie?” Nita scowled at her mother and crossed her arms as she examined the body. He was indistinguishable on the outside from any other human-the inside, of course, was a different matter. Middle-aged, and in the place between pudgy and overweight, he wore a casual business suit and a pair of wire-rimmed glasses with silver handles that blended into the gray at his temples. NITA STARED AT the dead body lying on the kitchen table. To all those who know the line between good and evil is blurrier than people want to admit | Horror stories.Ĭlassification: LCC PZ7.1.S335 | DDC -dc23 Title: Not even bones / Rebecca Schaefferĭescription: Boston New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, | Summary: Nita’s mother hunts and, after Nita dissects and packages them, sells them online, but when Nita follows her conscience to help a live monster escape, she is sold on the black market in his place. The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

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Now she’s going to do a lot of bad deeds to get it all back.All rights reserved. Nita did a good deed, and it cost her everything. Nita just dissects the bodies after they’ve been “acquired.” But when her mom brings home a live specimen, Nita decides she wants out - dissecting living people is a step too far.īut when she tries to save her mother’s victim, she ends up sold on the black market in his place - because Nita herself isn’t exactly “human.” Now Nita is on the other side of the bars, and there is no line she won’t cross to escape and make sure no one can ever sell her again. Nita doesn’t murder supernatural beings and sell their body parts on the internet-her mother does that.

Sarah Holland, NYT bestselling author of Everlessĭexter meets This Savage Song in this dark fantasy about a girl who dissects monsters and sells their body parts on the black market - until she’s betrayed. “Twisty, grisly, genre-bending and immersive, Not Even Bones will grab you by the throat and drag you along as it gleefully tramples all of your expectations.”

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